$82,000–$103,000 Per Year
8D, Coaching, Communication Skills, Continuous Improvement, Cost Control, Cost Modeling, Cross-Functional, Documentation, Electricity, Food Safety, GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices), Identify Issues, Lean Manufacturing, Lean Six Sigma, Manufacturing, Manufacturing Management, Mentoring, Metal Manufacturing, Performance Metrics, Performance Reviews, Problem Solving Skills, Quality Management, Safety Standards, Safety/Work Safety, Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED), Surveillance, Team Lead/Manager, Training/Teaching
Are you the leader who can keep people safe, product perfect, and lines running?
If you thrive on coaching a crew, solving equipment problems in the moment, and turning data into better outcomes, this role is for you. You’ll be the steady hand on the plant floor—protecting people, elevating quality, and maximizing throughput—while growing a team that can think and act independently.
How you’ll make an impact
- Set the tone for safety: Drive safe practices, participate in the Safety Committee, and ensure equipment and people are protected at all times.
- Deliver top-tier quality: Watch the details—visual and dimensional checks, CVP surveillance—and collaborate with Quality so information powers action.
- Hit production targets: Build daily plans, assign work, and keep lines running at the right speeds and efficiencies with tight reporting (production, HFI, downtime, MRO/parts inventory).
- Grow people: Assess, train, mentor, and when needed, administer discipline. Handle scheduling, attendance, policy, and documentation.
- Improve relentlessly: Lead LSS teams and champion 5S, TPM, SMED, and 8D; remove waste and lower costs while modeling Ardagh Core Values.
- Own compliance: Ensure Food Safety, GMPs, and HAACP Principle/Food Safety Standard and Application are fully met.
- Keep assets healthy: Troubleshoot equipment, schedule PMs/repairs, execute overhauls, and support new installations; provide relief for Mechanical Team Members as needed.
Your team
Direct Reports: Production and Operation Team Members
What you’ll need
- Clear, confident communicator and trainer with the ability to guide cross-functional, self-directed teams.
- Mechanical/electrical aptitude and sharp critical-thinking skills.
- Track record building safe, cohesive, high-energy teams and partnering across all levels, including customers.
- Lean manufacturing familiarity and a systems mindset for continuous improvement.
- Willingness to work all schedules: 12-hour, daylight and off-shifts, weekends, and holidays.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, behaviors and or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education & experience
- Associate Degree (related field) or 5+ years as a manufacturing lead/supervisor, including screening, performance reviews, counseling, training, and development.
- Experience measuring performance to goals/standards and leading highly skilled technicians.
Preferred
- Bachelor’s Degree (related field).
- 7+ years mechanical/electrical experience in manufacturing; metal manufacturing background preferred.
- Kaizen / Lean Six Sigma training and project work.
Tools & tech
Proficient computer skills (i.e., Microsoft Applications).
Schedule
Average hours per week: 40 or 36/48 alternating. Usual shift worked is: 8 or 12 hours.
Physical expectations
Regularly stand and walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; talk or hear. Frequently reach with hands/arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and work in confined spaces. Occasionally lift/move up to 75 lbs; frequently lift 1–50 lbs. No continual lifting. Vision: close and distance; color recognition. Good hand/eye coordination required.
- Stand: 40%
- Sit: 5%
- Walk: 30%
- Lift: 5%
- Twist: 5%
- Squat: 1%
- Crawl: 1%
- Climb: 2%
- Bend (90–180 degrees): 5%
- Reach above shoulders: 2%
- Work at heights: 1%
Occasionally 1–33%, frequently 34–66%, and Continuously 67–100% of the time. Lifting requirements: Up to 15 lbs …….. Frequently; 16–30 lbs…………. Occasionally; 31–50 lbs…………. Occasionally; 51–75 lbs…………. Occasionally; 76–100 lbs……….. Occasionally; Over 100 lbs ……. Not required.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Where you’ll work
Very loud manufacturing setting; hearing protection and assigned PPE are mandatory. Temperatures range from extreme cold to high heat (95 degrees). Fumes, dust, and odors may be present.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Special hazards
Mechanical and electrical hazards from machinery; routine work with chemicals that are toxic and explosive.
Pay
Salary Range: $82,000 - $103,000 (good-faith estimate based on the expected scope of the role and internal equity considerations).